International Support Apparently Just Means Britain and France

With the pretense of the US “considering” a war long gone, and indications that the attacks could begin any day now, officials are backing off yesterday’s reports of seeking an international endorsement, either from the UN or NATO, for attacking Syria.

With neither UN nor NATO approval, and Congress in recess, President Obama is going to be launching the war virtually unilaterally, with only a brief agreement by Britain and France to get in on the bombings passing for “international support.”

In Britain, there are concerns about the total lack of legal justification for the war, especially with the Iraq debacle still fresh in everyone’s minds. President Obama, for all of his long-standing pretense of internationalism, seems set to follow the Bush-style of selling a war on flimsy evidence and launching it anyhow when he can’t get any international bodies to endorse it.

Which of course was the plan all along. Giving lip-service to the idea of the UN or even NATO endorsing a war is more about getting them to react favorably to the calls for war than anything, but once a US president decides he wants to go warring abroad, nothing from facts to public opinion to international law is going to get in his way.

No wonder he gave blanket immunity to Bush, Cheney and the gang of Rumsfedian Nazis who disgraced the country. He's a serial aggressor himself. There's only one solution that makes sense: complete non-cooperation, a general strike, moratorium on credit card and student loan debt repayment, an extremely aggressive campaign of non-violent resistance. Cost these bastards money and threaten their house of cards. It's the only option left.

tom mauel

Amy Goodman and the liberals at Democracy Now have been silent other than to offer statements from John Kerry and report the lies from main stream outlets. We are set for war as earlier as Thursday and Democracy Now has yet to challenge one word of the Obama line leading us there.

El Tonno

Can we have this next time Israel decides to flatten the flattened Gaza strip even flatter and uses phosphorus and DIMEs to shred a few civilians and give them light cancer? Wouldn't even be a false flag operation.

Guess not, huh?

byrd_bahls22

Mad cowboy disease.

Guest

The war acts by US government looks like a bargain at a garage sel, they have made a fool of themselves knowing that Syrian war is not about the president of Syria but rather USA is a "hired" war machinery paid by Saudis and UAE for Saudis to expend their Islamic territorial ruled by feudalism at best, Obama wants to have a war but only for 2 days. This is so obsured that Saudis have send in their spy chief to talk to Obama and others, like mccain to convience them about Saudis and UAE will participate only when there is no Syria. The enemy of the people in Middle East is not their religious, the enemies of the people in Middle East are those who use religious for their own political gain, those who are eager to stablish a religious dictatorial regime rather then democracy, their social weapon, is shariah law or Zionism. For US and EU governments supporting and actively being involved in such creation shows that neither of these government are nor they will or have any respect for any laws but those which they are paid for.

Anti_Govt_Rebel

The guy is another Hitler!

Anti_Govt_Rebel

Seeking authorization from the UN or NATO, but not from Congress as our Constitution requires? Where is the reporting on this from the fourth estate?
The President is completely lawless and nobody is doing anything about it.
The President seems to have abdicated, and he accepts whatever the military wants, acting merely as their mouthpiece.